Under Clouds of Poesy: Poetry and Truth in French and English Reworkings of the Aeneid, 1160-1513 |
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... Latin material in the vernacular , the poets were obviously engaged in a project of popularizing the newly interesting ancient material . As Benoît de Sainte - Maure writes at the beginning of the Troie , De bien ne puet nus trop oir Ne ...
... Latin material in the vernacular , the poets were obviously engaged in a project of popularizing the newly interesting ancient material . As Benoît de Sainte - Maure writes at the beginning of the Troie , De bien ne puet nus trop oir Ne ...
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... Latin text and of the various commen- taries upon it.20 Although from time to time a reader familiar with the Aeneid will recognize a phrase or two of Virgil's Latin appearing through the Old French , it seems that the occurrences are ...
... Latin text and of the various commen- taries upon it.20 Although from time to time a reader familiar with the Aeneid will recognize a phrase or two of Virgil's Latin appearing through the Old French , it seems that the occurrences are ...
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... Latin translations of eyewitness accounts of the Trojan War . Both texts are , in fact , almost certainly translations of Greek originals of the first century A.D. Only a tiny papyrus fragment of the Greek Dictys is extant ; on the ...
... Latin translations of eyewitness accounts of the Trojan War . Both texts are , in fact , almost certainly translations of Greek originals of the first century A.D. Only a tiny papyrus fragment of the Greek Dictys is extant ; on the ...
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Aeneas Aeneid allegory Amors Anchises Antenor appear argue Augustus avoit battle Bawcutt beginning Benoît Bernardus bien BN f.fr Boccaccio Book Brut Camilla Camille Carthage Casibus Caxton century ceste Chansons de geste chapter commentary cyclic death Dido story Dido's Douglas's Eneas Eneas-poet Eneydos epic episode estoit Evander fact fait fall of Troy French Fulgentius Gavin Douglas Genealogia gods grant Greeks grete hero Histoire ancienne historian Jean de Courcy king lament Latin Lavine lines manuscript marvelous medieval molt narrative notes obviously ordo artificialis ordo naturalis original Ovide Pallas perhaps poet poetic poetry Polydorus Priam prologue prose qu'il queen quod reader reading recount reworking Roman d'Eneas Roman de Troie Rome Salverda de Grave Scota seems seen Servius significance speech Thèbes tion translation Trojans truth Turnus underworld University Press Venus vernacular Virgil Virgil's poem Virgilian William Caxton writes